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Source: NPR "Talk of the Nation"

Roundup

9-29-05

Civil rights lawyer Constance Baker-Motley (1921-2005)

A look back at the life of Constance Baker-Motley, civil rights lawyer and first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, with guest Ted Shaw, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"